…… visits President Buhari in the Aso Rock Villa
A former governor of Lagos state and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ahmed Tinubu yesterday denied reports that former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar and former interim National Chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande and himself were at war over who emerges as the chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT).
Tinubu who spoke with journalists at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, yesterday after visiting President Muhammadu Buhari with Akande, said there was no rivalry in the party and that the party is focused on supporting the President to achieve his goal of transforming the nation.
“Don’t listen to rumors, there is no struggle. Our party is not even looking at the direction of power struggle or anything of such. The support structure is to encourage and support the President as you have heard from Chief Bisi Akande, to help him institutionalize his goal, principle and vision for a new Nigeria.” He said
On complaints about the delay in the appointment of a cabinet by the President, Tinubu said there is pitfall in rushing, quick fix, depending upon the depth of the rot. He said the rush can push the President into mistakes of “unimaginable magnitude”.
There is equally glory and recovery in slowness, when you have a slow fix of a bad foundation, he said adding that “I would rather take the one that will last the country and endure for a longer period of time than the rush hour shopping”.
He also disagreed with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) claim that President Buhari was dictatorial in his approach to government adding that the institutional paralysis had occurred in the country and it was important for a steady man like the President to really help the nation recover from the paralysis and that is what he is doing.
He also asked the PDP to be quiet if it has nothing meaningful to say as the problem on ground was created by them.
On likely reports that he came to the Villa to submit names for ministerial appointment, he said: “What can I do about that, they have the right to speculate, they have the right to their lies and I have the right to debunk.”
Akande, on his part, said that they were in the Villa to see how to encourage the President to flush out the rots he met on ground. “It is the rot, piles of rots upon rots” he added.
